The Chinese Languages

A video on the Chinese, or Sinitic, languages.

Used Sources

Varieties of Chinese

Geography of China

The Many Dialects of China

Classification of the Sino-Tibetan Languages

The Sino-Tibetan Language Family

Tibeto-Burman Languages

Mandarin Chinese

A Brief History of Mandarin

Visuals

Map of Languages Spoken in China

Sino-Tibetan Languages

Southeast Asia Political Map

All About Chinese Writing

Thanks for watching.

[duyanning]

Thanks to Chinese characters, otherwise we would be divided into small ethnic groups like Westerners. 感谢汉字，不然我们也像西方人一样分裂成多个小民族了。

[kmv]

One important fact: Min Chinese is the only branch that stems from Old Chinese while the rest of them stems from Middle Chinese.

[nebula]

"nice" "video" "cooper"